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Related: About this forumRand Paul worries women ‘won’ the war and are ‘conquering’ men, taking their jobs
By David Edwards
Sunday, January 26, 2014 13:08 EST
Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) on Sunday declared that the so-called Republican war on women was over and women had won, but a new war was being waged by women who were taking jobs from men.
We have a lot of debates in Washington that get dumbed down and are used for political purposes, Paul told NBCs David Gregory. This whole sort of war on women thing, Im scratching my head because, if there was a war on women, I think they won.
As evidence, the Kentucky senator pointed out that none of the women in his family were complaining about inequality or having their health care rights curtailed by Republicans.
You know, I dont see so much that women are downtrodden, I see women rising up and doing great things, he remarked. In fact, I worry about our young men sometimes because I think the women really are out-competing the men in our world.
Paul added that he tried to never talk about the female anatomy and that Republicans did not start the war on women debate.
The facts show that women are doing very well, have come a long way, he explained. And I have a lot of successful women in my family. And I dont here them saying, Oh, woe is me, this terrible misogynist world. They look out and theyre conquering the world.
Paul later suggested that for President Bill Clinton was responsible for the war on women because he had an affair with an intern while he was in office during the 1990s.
The media seems to have given President Clinton a pass on this, Paul insisted. There is no excuse for that, that is predatory behavior and it shouldnt be something we shouldt want to associate with people who would take advantage of a young girl in his office.
The potential Republican 2016 presidential candidate said that it was difficult to unlink Bill Clintons behavior from potential Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.
I think in my state, people tend to frown upon that, he declared. If there were someone in my community who did that in my community, they would be socially we would disassociate from somebody who would take advantage of a young woman in a workplace.
Watch this video from NBCs Meet the Press, broadcast Jan. 26, 2013.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/01/26/rand-paul-worries-women-won-the-war-and-are-conquering-men-taking-their-jobs/
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ZombieHorde
(29,047 posts)ladjf
(17,320 posts)black people. nt
The_Commonist
(2,518 posts)All of whom would probably vote for him:
ladjf
(17,320 posts)saying.
The_Commonist
(2,518 posts)It's from South Park.
ladjf
(17,320 posts)When the KKK was founded during the late part of the 19th Century in Tennessee, their primary fear was that the freed blacks
would flood the labor market causing the Whites to lose theirs.
pangaia
(24,324 posts)What does that mean, I wonder?
Nancy Waterman
(6,407 posts)Let him keep talking and dig a deeper and deeper hole for himself.
Lindsay
(3,276 posts)are doing well.
Perhaps that is a bit too small a sample, however.
(Whadda jerk.)
Blue Owl
(49,934 posts)n/t
aint_no_life_nowhere
(21,925 posts)Paul knows we need but visit the average boardroom of a major corporation to witness the fallacy in his argument. That he would deign to propose that women are surpassing men in the workplace, from his position of superiority in a political party where women occupy virtually no positions of power is very kind and generous on his part. Can he condescend any further, I wonder?